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2:00 EST: One more thing: Iowa Supreme Court Justice Retention Vote: David Wiggins: Yes (retain): 54% √ No: 46% 83% reporting. NOM is having a very bad night. A historically bad night. I’m going to...
View ArticleVoters Send Record Number of LGBT Pols to Washington
“Now, I am well aware that I will have the honor of being Wisconsin’s first woman senator. And I am well aware that I will be the first openly gay member,” Baldwin said to loud cheers and chants of...
View ArticleDem Reps. Cheer Marriage Decisions
A paraphrase of what they said: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): Oh happy day! Justice was done for thousands of LGBT families nationwide. Forty-four years after Stonewall. Supreme Court bent the arc of...
View ArticleAcrimony In Da House: Chaos As Republicans Defeat Anti-Discrimination Amendment
When the 2016 Defense Authorization Bill hit the floor of the House today, it carried with it a provision attached by Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) which would overturn President Obama’s executive order...
View ArticleHouse Finally Passes LGBT Anti-Discrimination Measure
Remember that amendment that Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) tried to attach to veterans spending bill last week that would uphold President Obama’s Executive Order requiring federal contractors to...
View ArticleUpdated: The House May Have Passed the LGBT Amendment, But They Defeated The...
The House rejected a appropriations bill for the Energy Department, Army Corps of Engineers, Interior Department’s Bureau of Reclamation and several other commissions. The huge $37.4 billion spending...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong Today: Same As Before, But With A Twist
Emmarie Huetteman at the New York Times has an interesting analysis of what went wrong today when House Republicans derailed their own spending bill due to the inclusion of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s...
View ArticleHouse GOP Caucus Heard “Homosexuals Worthy Of Death” Verse Before Spending...
I mentioned this earlier, but Roll Call has just come out with more details: Georgia Rep. Rick W. Allen led the opening prayer by reading from Romans 1:18-32, and Revelations 22:18-19. An aide to Allen...
View ArticleTwo Days After Orlando, House GOP Leaders Block LGBT Nondiscrimination Amendment
Late yesterday, the House Roles committee, dominated by members handpicked by House Speaker He-Who-Cannot-Say-Our-Name (R-WI) blocked an amendment filed by Rep, Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) to restore...
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